What a deal!

A fellow Blogger asked how I was saving money at CVS. Here is how I scored today on my best trip yet. The following is a picture of everything I got.


Two Boxes Cereal
One nivea for men body wash
One bag of Candy Corn
One Tylenol Precise Heat therapy patch (4 count)
Three containers of mini candy bars
Four scented oil refills
Three oil warmers


And the grand total out of pocket cost was......$5.77

I made three transactions in order to use the Extra Care Bucks

#1
Nivea - Originally 4.99 (had 1.00off Coup)[Got 4.99 extra care bucks](1.00 Money maker!)
Candy Corn - Originally 0.99 [Received 0.99 extra care buck] (free)

#2
Tylenol Precision 5.99 (had 2.00 off coupon from paper and 2.00 off CVS coupon from Internet) used Extra care bucks from transaction #1 and I also got 2.00 extra care bucks from this one!(free)
#3
Four Airwick Oils (CVS sale - Spend 10 get 5 extra care bucks) + (Coupons for 0.50 off each) [0.75 each]
Three Warmers (had 3 coupons for 'buy an oil get a warmer free') [Free}
Cereal - (CVS sale 1.88 each) + (Coupon for 0.50 off) [ 1.30 each]
Candy - on Sale for 0.77 had to use these to get my total up to $20 so I could use a $4 off $20 internet coupon from CVS) [free]
I also used my extra care bucks from transaction 1 and 2 to help pay for this.

Not every trip is this good...but you get the idea. Yeah for savings!

Saving money

My new job has become learning how to 'play the coupon game'. I have gotten pretty good at it.

I came home last night with 6 bottles of Sobe Water, 8 bottles of Johnson and Johnson babywash and shampoo and 2 sippy cups all for $8 from CVS....(That's about 75 cents per bottle of baby stuff and the Sobe's were free!! Austin will be clean all year now!)

I noticed the bottom of my receipt the following

Summer 2010 spending $163.97
Year to Date Savings $772.50

I think stores like CVS hate customers like me!

I wonder if I can get to $1000 savings before the year is over?